Oliver Lazarus

Oliver Lazarus is an associate producer for The Takeaway. He comes to New York by way of St. Louis, where he graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, not to be confused with his hometown of Washington, DC. He began at the show as an intern, and his transition to full-time marked the end of a multi-year career of college internships in journalism, politics, and international affairs. At The Takeaway, Oliver produces stories and series on everything from Southern sounds, to the U.S. bail system, to smart cities.

Breen stops short of saying that America’s military generals would perform a kind of coup, but he does say that the entire US national security apparatus would go into a state of panic under a President Trump.

Opposition research — it's that package that shows up in the mail of this week's political thriller. Will she use it, or won't she? But that research has to come from somewhere — and these are the people who do it.

Only 3 percent of students at top colleges come from the lowest 25 percent of incomes — and that's largely because of schools' admissions processes. In comparison, 72 percent of the students come from the top 25 percent.

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